The area of the city of Nuremberg itself - and especially today's old town - has no detectable traces of a settlement before the 11th century.

Though Ling had been thoroughly searched, and all possessions seized, she might carry in her body some detectable trace element-acquired growing up on a far Galactic world.

But almost any carbon-based life-form would leave a detectable trace as the captain has theorized.

But if they are white dwarfs, they should have left detectable traces of carbon in the diffuse gas of surrounding space, and nothing like that has been observed.

Every detectable trace.

There was even a detectable trace of Narcoin a tiny scab he had removed from the knee's wound, trapped in the blood before it clotted.

There was no detectable trace of communication going on.

So he's asking, if you backup a drive, and there are forensically detectable traces of previous data on the original, does that get backed up, as well?

Contexts are single events or actions that leave discrete, detectable traces in the archaeological sequence or stratigraphy.